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Title
Employee Acceptability of Wearable Mental Workload Monitoring in Industry 4.0: A Pilot Study on Motivational and Contextual Framing
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As Industry 4.0 will greatly challenge employee mental workload (MWL), research on objective wearable MWL-monitoring is in high demand. However, numerous research lines validating such technology might become redundant when employees eventually object to its implementation. In a pilot study, we manipulated two ways in which employees might perceive MWL-monitoring initiatives. We found that framing the technology in terms of serving intrinsic goals (e.g., improving health) together with an autonomy-supportive context (e.g., allowing discussion) yields higher user acceptability when compared to framing in terms of extrinsic goals (e.g., increasing productivity) together with a controlling context (e.g., mandating use). User acceptability still panned out neutral in case of the former, however - feeding into our own and suggested future work.
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English
Source (journal)
Proceedings of the Design Society
Source (book)
Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design 2019
Publication
Cambridge University Press , 2019
ISSN
2220-4342
DOI
10.1017/DSI.2019.216
Volume/pages
1 :1 (2019) , p. 2101-2110
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